Wentworth Penrose is a Republican member of Congress from Pennsylvania. His friends and House colleagues call him "Wenny," a nickname he picked up at St. Paul's. He was first elected to Congress in 1968, defeating Sal Mascarpone, a Democrat who aligned himself with George Wallace and made the twin pillars of his campaign support for a stepped-up bombing campaign in Hanoi and a push for tuition tax credits at home. Penrose said he questioned the war's ultimate winability but would support the troops until his party's standard-bearer, Richard Nixon, could end the conflict with honor. He opposed tuition tax credits, favoring instead a small increase in federal funding to local school districts.

In recent years, Penrose has tended to vote with his fellow Republicans on fiscal issues, even as he has both maintained that the federal deficit is out of control and failed to support major budget cuts. He is a staunch supporter of the environment and is among Congress' most fervent defenders of the National Endowment for the Arts. (His wife, Viola, is a sculptress.)

When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke in January, Penrose at first said the president should resign if the charges proved true. Subsequently, he said that perjury in a civil trial doesn't represent an impeachable offense. Later, he said that perjury before a federal grand jury might represent an impeachable offense. And finally, he said he would support impeachment if the president failed to meet the following conditions, outlined in an op-ed piece that he wrote last week for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Condition 1: Clinton must sign a statement acknowledging that he lied under oath. Condition 2: Clinton must pay a $1 million fine. Condition 3: Clinton must enter a program for the treatment of sex addicts. Condition 4: Clinton must increase the enforcement budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by 50 percent. Condition 5: Clinton must appoint a commission to create a memorial to former president Theodore Roosevelt, to be located somewhere on the mall, preferably close to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Condition 6: Clinton must pledge to stop taking food off other people's plates, especially when it's soup, which tends to spill onto the tablecloth.